Ed Fisher's cartoon for the New Yorker issue of December 4, 1971 pokes fun at the mixed messaging of the day. Aesop's fable of "The Grasshopper and the Ant" is a parable in which the industrious ant embodies the Protestant work ethic. In this cartoon, the father has concocted a bedtime story with a moral that instead reflects, apparently, his own ambivalence about work.
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"Sure enough, when winter came, the carefree, hedonistic grasshopper
died. But the ant died, too, without ever really having lived at all."
Ed Fisher
Original art
The New Yorker, December 4, 1971, page 54 |
The period details are all there: the wide tie, the sideburns, the mod lamp. No one was troubled by a father telling a bedtime story with a lit cigarette in his hand.
Fisher worked hard on the faces, adding paste-ups of both heads to be sure he got the expressions right.
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| Ed Fisher's signature |
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| The verso seems to lack the usual New Yorker stamps. |
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Ed Fisher
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Ed Fisher
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Ed Fisher
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Cartoons by Edward Frascino and Ed Fisher were sold concurrently on eBay. You can read my post on the Frascino rhinoceros cartoon in the archives here. [End of eBay listing] |
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Cartoons by Ed Fisher and William Steig
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